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WWDC Pre-Keynote Roundup

Posted by pudge on from the get-yer-mac-on dept.

jonknee writes "Apple fans are diehard... MacMerc is covering the WWDC keynote in real time. The show starts at 1 p.m. EST and should last a few hours." rfernand79 writes "Still some time to go to WWDC, and mac.com has iDisk for Panther preview specifications. Offline access to iDisk sounds really cool." Oculus Habent writes "For those of us who didn't have the money or time to make it to WWDC today, we can catch the keynote. Don't for get to upgrade to QuickTime 6.3 for best performance. I wonder if you can watch it on cell phones, now." The keynote stream is delayed; it begins after the keynote ends.

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  1. Some info - From MacNN coverage by mkarpinski · · Score: 4, Informative
    # Safari 1.0 goes GM (golden master) today. Apple will release it on the Web in a few hours. Apple is also releasking an SDK to embed Safari funtionality in other applications. In the past 6 months of beta, Apple has had over 5 million downloads.

    # Apple says that later today Apple will sell the millionth iPod and that as of last Saturday, it has sold over 5 million songs. He demos a Jay Leno bit showing Osama in iPod advertisement.

    # Jobs then talks about rtail stores, noting that Apple has 58 sores with over 17 million visitors. He shoed Apple SoHo and Grove. He notes that Chicago store is opening this week and San Francisco is opening next spring.

    # Apple was the first to ship 802.11g in the industry. He provides an overview of AirPort Extreme.

    # Apple has 300,000 registered Apple developers, which has tripled since Mac OS X introduced. Apple has also has many Unix and Java developers.

    # Jobs on Stage. [1:03 pm]

    # 12:31: Reporting from Apple Store SoHo. Roughly 300 people present even an hour before the keynote is scheduled to begin. Store employees showing random video clips as well as old Apple commercials.
    # Keynote begins at 1 PM ET.

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  2. Just FYI by tbone1 · · Score: 4, Informative
    The Mac Observer is doing this as well, for those stuck at home.

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  3. Re:Watching it live OR I'm an incredible nerd by twiztidlojik · · Score: 4, Informative

    iChat - iChat AV.
    Audio and video chat. Hot damn.
    "Videoconferencing for the rest of us"
    buddy list videoconferencing
    zero configuration
    no reconfiguration with network switching or other network stuff
    Rendezvous videoconferencing!
    audio works on 56k
    Audio + video on DSL and up

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